When I launched my Panic Virus blog on my own site back in December 2010, the second piece I posted was titled “The Huffington Post: Featuring bad science, facile reasoning since 2005.” The takeaway of

On Tuesday, I speculated that The Huffington Post might be toning down its anti-vaccine propaganda* based on the fact that David Kirby’s latest effort to foment fears that vaccines might cause autism had appeared on his

Almost three months ago, a writer named David Kirby wrote a 3,800-word piece for The Huffington Post titled “The Autism-Vaccine Debate: Why It Won’t Go Away.” It was not an impressive piece of reporting. As